Improvement in car-couplings



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

J ONATHAN X. PEASE, OF' IRWINS STATION, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OFONE-HALF HIS BIGHT TO CHARLES H. CARUTHERS IMPROVEMENT !N CAR-COUPLINGS.

Specication forning part of Letters Patent No. l47,428,datedFelrnary10,1874;applicaicn filed December 13, 1873. V

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J ONATIIAN X. PEASE, of Irwin s Station, in theCounty of lVestmoreland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a newand valuable Improvement in Couplin g Pins and I do hereby deelare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of theconstruction and operation of the same, reference being had to theannexed drawings making a part of this speeification, and to the lettersand figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawing is a representation of a View of mycoupling-pin. Fig. 2 is a view of my eoupling-pin as applied. Fig. 3 isa detail view.

This invention has relation to link-pins for the couplin gs ofrailroad-cars; and it consists in a wrought-iron coupling-pin having acastiron head. My object is not only to facilitate and cheapen themanufacture of these pns, but also to construct them in such nannerthat, in the event of a pin becoming bent from any cause, the headthereof can be rea-dily cracked and removed from its shank, and thelatter straightened and again used by casting another head on it, aswill be hereinafter fully explained.

In the anneXed drawings, A represents the shank of the improvedcoupling-pin, which is made of wrought-iron, and which may have an havebeen removed from the sand and the sec tons of the fiask have been puttogether, the metal poured through the sprue-hole will fill up the moldfor the head and leave shank A hcaded, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Such a head can be readily'broken and removed from the shank in ease thelatter becomes bent, so that the bent shank can be easily straightenedand again used by casting another head on it.

hat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A wrought-metal coupling-pin, A, having a cast-metal head, B, as and forthe purpose set forth.

In testinony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

JONATHAN X. PEASE.

Witnesses S. C. REMSBERG, ROBT. W. WEIGHT,

